On Maw, 2003-05-13 at 22:11, Matthew Jacob wrote:> This fixes a buglet wrt doing vmalloc at interrupt time for 2.4.> > get_vm_area should call kmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC- after all, it's> set up to allow for an allocation failure. As best as I read> the 2.4 code, the rest of the path through _kmem_cache_alloc> should be safe.

You aren't allow to vmalloc in an IRQ. The kmalloc is the least ofyour programs - you have to worry about the page table handling.